'Experience' Saves You... Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency to Establish and Expand Safety Experience Training Centers Including Smart Factories

Design Plans Finalized for Iksan and Jungbu Safety Experience Centers, Opening in 2024

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] Another bodyguard that protects the lives of industrial site workers, the ‘experience’ education infrastructure, is being improved and expanded.

The Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency (KOSHA) will establish the eighth nationwide ‘Safety Experience Education Center’ in Iksan, Jeonbuk, an education system that allows indirect experience of industrial sites and helps internalize safety rules. The existing Central Education Center will be expanded with advanced facilities.

The design plan for the experience education center was selected through a design competition in May this year, with the design by ‘Handul Comprehensive Architecture Office Co., Ltd.’ chosen. Construction will begin next year with the goal of opening in 2024.

The Iksan Experience Education Center will also include a ‘Smart Factory.’ A separate construction site experience facility will be prepared to conduct safety education for the future. A simulation hall using virtual reality technologies such as VR will be established to enhance the effectiveness of experiential education.

The education center will consist of △Safety Archive Hall, △Industrial Safety Experience Hall, △Simulation Hall (4D VR Video Hall), and △Occupational Health & General Safety Experience Hall.

It will be established on a 9,905.8㎡ (3,001 pyeong) site within a general industrial complex, with two floors above ground.

The Central Safety Experience Education Center, the only experience education center in the metropolitan area, will be improved from its old outdoor facilities, opened in 1997, to indoor facilities that allow experience education regardless of weather.

Additionally, a new experience zone linked to the tower crane experience center established last year will be created to provide specialized construction safety education, and through reconstruction, an educational facility covering all industries will be prepared. It will be operated as a safety experience education center that meets the educational demand throughout the metropolitan area.

The center will be composed of △Safety and Health Experience Hall, △Virtual Safety Experience Hall, and △First Aid Experience Hall.

Currently, it will be expanded on a 6,393㎡ (1,938 pyeong) site within the experience education center, with one basement floor and three floors above ground.

KOSHA currently operates safety experience education centers in six regions nationwide (Incheon, Honam, Gyeongnam, Gyeongbuk, Chungcheong, Jecheon). It is expanding experiential and practical education through the ‘Private Safety Experience Education Center Accreditation System.’

KOSHA safety experience education centers are available free of charge from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekdays, and reservations are accepted in advance through the Safety and Health Education Portal.

Details on the status of private safety experience education centers and the accreditation system can be checked on the KOSHA website before applying for education.

Park Doo-yong, Director of KOSHA, said, “Through continuous establishment and improvement, we hope more people can easily learn safety rules and join in reducing industrial accidents.”

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